Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 03/04/16
March 4, 2016
Announcing Albany’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2016 “The Albany Business Review has announced the 40 Under 40 winners for 2016. The honorees were selected
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Get Ready for Digital Transformation
March 4, 2016
What do Big Data and social networking have in common? They’re driving the digital transformation of your business. Like it or not, more than your corporate strategy could change. According to Eric Clemmons, a Wharton professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the “digital transformation of the firm” could alter your organization itself. Are you ready for changes in decision rights, incentive systems, and information flows?
What’s the Future of IoT? (And Why Manufacturers Care)
February 29, 2016
For the third year in a row, the Internet of Things (IoT) was the talk of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Gadgets aren’t industrial equipment, however, and manufacturers need more than smart lightbulbs and wireless speakers. According to Forrester Research, IoT technologies are still “immature.” In fact, many are in the survival phase of Forrester’s TechRadar model. Does this mean manufacturers can ignore IoT then?
Manufacturing Round Up for Week of 2/26/16
February 26, 2016
How the Internet of Things is Forging Partnerships Between 2 Growing Tech Companies “Two Albany, New York, companies seeing major growth in the Internet of
Top Challenges Faced By Small And Medium-Sized Manufacturers
February 25, 2016
How much does your manufacturing company know about NIST MEP? And much does NIST MEP seem to know about you? Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) asked small-to-medium manufacturers to predict their top three challenges over the next three years. Do the answers that these companies provided reflect what challenges you?
How Will 3D Printing Affect Your Supply Chain?
February 23, 2016
It’s trendy to talk about 3D printing as a “disruptive” technology. Yes, additive manufacturing changes the way that we make things. Instead of subtracting materials to shape objects, manufacturers build products in layers. But 3D printing isn’t just about using a different equipment set. Additive manufacturing, according to one national security expert, could mean retooling your supply chain for a strategic upheaval.
Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 02/19/15
February 19, 2016
Drug Developer Triples Payroll in Rensselaer County “Blockbuster sales of its drug for treating a leading cause of adult blindness have led Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to
How to Overcome Obstacles to Innovation
February 17, 2016
What’s keeping you from becoming more innovative? In a recent article for Harvard Business Review (HBR), authors Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson suggest that our perceptions are the problem. Specifically, the authors cite three attitudes – functional fixedness, design fixation, and goal fixedness – that limit the way we think. Yet McCaffrey and Pearson also claim it’s possible to overcome these obstacles. Here’s how.
Manufacturing Round Up for the Week of 02/12/16
February 12, 2016
Solar energy is a big deal in New York. But how does the state stack up against the rest of the country in terms of jobs? As of December, New York had the fourth-most solar power-related jobs in the U.S. with 8,250, almost three-quarters of which were installation-based.
